August 23, 2013Musings Using the DISC Personality Assessment at Work and Play (With Characters) Man yesterday was SLAMMED at the Evil Day Job. Super duper productive but holy crap busy. I’d scheduled an orientation meeting with […]
June 6, 2013Musings Thoughts on Gaining Reader Empathy A month or two ago, I picked up The Hero’s 2 Journeys by Michael Hague and Christopher Vogler. It was on sale […]
June 3, 2013Musings Monday Meanderings And Thoughts on Strong Female Characters This morning’s lifetrack, Follow the Flower from Under the Tuscan Sun. Because it’s Monday and I need some cheerful to balance out the […]
April 30, 2013Musings The Danger of Making A Villain TOO Smart…Lessons from Bones Okay first, I have to share the link to the FUNNIEST post I have EVER read about writing love scenes, courtesy of […]
March 25, 2013Musings Noodling on Nora Anyone who’s hung out around me for any period of time knows I’m a huge Nora Roberts fan. The woman is hella […]
February 15, 2013Musings Creating Sympathetic Characters: A Lesson From Lost Girl I think I mentioned last week that one of the reasons that I avoided Lost Girl as a show was because the […]
December 27, 2012Musings Is Normal Boring? I was reading an article earlier about 8 Reasons Intelligent Writers Must Read Twilight. The author makes a lot of good points. No […]
September 26, 2012Musings Using Time Orientation In Your Writing I never got around to blogging yesterday. I was in a marathon meeting all yesterday morning and out most of the afternoon […]
September 6, 2012Musings A Different Kind of Heroine So I got into a discussion the other day with pal Mhairi Simpson, trying to get at what the average reader really […]
June 14, 2012Musings Where’s The Line For Irredeemable? A couple weeks ago, I saw that Ghosts of Girlfriends Past was coming on TV, so I set it to DVR for when […]